Motivational Quotes

Goals

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Goals

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

25.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

29.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

41.

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie